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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Taking Breaks Boosts Team Performance
New research has found that taking regular breaks can improve team performance.
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Researchers Develop a Better Method to Compare Gene Expression in Single Cells
Researchers have developed an algorithm to help identify biomarkers that differentiate between cell populations at the single-cell level.
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Cybersecurity Goes to Summer Camp
University of Virginia researchers are training educators on how to teach cybersecurity to adolescents through a summer camp program.
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Inventing the Future in Chinese Labs: How Does China Do Science Today?
Genetic engineering, the search for dark matter, quantum computing and communications, artificial intelligence, brain science—the list of potentially disruptive...
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Complex Organics Bubble p from Enceladus
Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal complex organic molecules originating from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, strengthening the idea that this ocean world...
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Robots or Job Training: Manufacturers Grapple With How to Improve Their Economic Fortunes
For Anthony Nighswander, rock-bottom unemployment is both a headache and an opportunity. For businesses and workers, it could be the key to reversing one of the...
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Wi-Fi Security Is Starting to Get its Biggest pgrade in Over a Decade
The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun certifying products that support WPA3, a major security advance over the WPA2 protocol that has been in use since 2004.
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IBM Pits Computer Against Human Debaters
In its first public demonstration, IBM tested its Project Debater computer system against two human debaters.
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IEEE Makes OpenFog Consortium's Reference Architecture Official Standard for Fog Computing
The IEEE Standards Association has embraced the OpenFog Consortium's reference architecture as a fog computing standard.
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Students Develop App Aimed at Preventing Suicide
Middle-school students in Kalispell, MT, have built an app to help prevent suicide.
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Closing the Loop for Robotic Grasping
Scientists in Australia have developed a faster, more accurate way for robots to grasp objects, particularly in cluttered and changing environments.
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Open Source Professionals in Demand
An "increasingly open source world" needs specialists in Linux and other open source technologies.
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The Rise of DNA Data Storage
The 144 words of Robert Frost's seminal poem "The Road Not Taken" fit neatly onto a single printed page. Or in a 1-kilobyte data file.
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Daring Japanese Mission Reaches nexplored Asteroid Ryugu
After travelling for three-and-a-half years, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 this week makes its final approach to the asteroid Ryugu.
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China Extends Lead as Most Prolific Supercomputer Maker
America is now home to the world's speediest supercomputer. But the new list of the 500 swiftest machines underlines how much faster China is building them.
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Low-Cost Plastic Sensors Could Monitor a Range of Health Conditions
An international team of researchers has developed a low-cost sensor that can diagnose or monitor a wide range of health conditions.
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'Interacting With Students Provides Rewards That Are Hard to Beat'
Baldwin Wallace University's Jodi Tims, chair of ACM's Council on Women in Computing, discusses how an academic career in computer science offers exceptional rewards...
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3D-Printed Soft Robots Can Be Controlled by Magnets
Engineers have developed small three-dimensionally printed structures whose movements can be controlled with external magnetic fields.
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Study Finds Daily Cycles in Our Thinking Patterns
Researchers have found that a person's mode of thinking changes at different times of the day and follows a 24-hour pattern.
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